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Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google
eldavojohn writes "Greg Niland is blogging about target.com's aggressive near-spam search engine optimization, and is more than a little critical not only of how this affects the most popular search engine, but also why it will probably persist. If you want an example, search for 'Exercise Bike Clearance' and click the first link."
What? Disappointed are you?
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You and me both. My completely unscientific and subjective anecdotal experience suggests I get more results with Google but better results with Yahoo. And there is no way I will give up my Yahoo mail. I've tried GMail a few times, and it is painful for me to use. The layout is weird and I can never find anything (commands or e-mails...that's not helpful). Perhaps Yahoo mail is easier because I've been using it for so long (well over a decade, since the time when AltaVista was king) and have become accustomed to its interface. Whatever the explanation, I just know I have thousands of e-mails and records in my Yahoo e-mail and can easily find what I need, whereas even with just a handful of e-mails in my Google mail account I could never find anything without a struggle.
I do like being able to manually alter my route in Google maps, but I've had so many problems with it being down or flaky this year that I always go back to good old reliable MapQuest.
I suppose this shows that Google is like Microsoft; if you are the most ubiquitous in your market (OS, search engine, what have you), you will be targeted (viruses, search engine spammers). Yahoo search is my Linux...it's there, but everyone is targeting the big guy in the room and is ignoring my favorite. Yay!